Improvement in insect-powder packages



LN. GERARD & H. J. J'AQTJI'IH.

INSECT POWDER-PACKAGE.

No.175,448. Patented March 28,1876.

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WZnesses;

UNITED STATES T OFrIo.

JOHN N. GERARD, OF ELIZABETH, AND HORACE J. J AQUITH, OF JERSEY CITY,NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT lN INSECT-POWDER PACKAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,448, dated March28, 1876 application filed March 2, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JOHN N. GERARD, ofElizabeth, Union county, and HORACE J. J A- UITH,of Jersey City, Hudsoncounty, State of. New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in the Method of Packing Insect-Powder, of which thefollowing is a specification:

This invention relates to that class of de vices known as bellows-boxesor insect-powder guns, and the method of packing the powder as acommodity of commerce, and it consists in combining the powder-packageand the bellows or blowing devices in one apparatus, instead of beingseparate devices,- as is usual, the construction, application, andoperation of which will be herein fully pointed out and described.

In the drawings, which form an essential part of this specification,Figure 1 is aplan view of a bellows-box and powder-package in which isfully embodied our invention. Fig. 2 is a left-hand end view of thesame. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the pasteboard blank which forms the baseupon which the box is formed. Fig. 4 is a side view of the same withspring and ejecting tube or nozzle attached. Fig. 5 is an elevation ofthe nozzle or ejecting-tube. Fig. 6 is a reverse view of the base of thesame, and Fig. 7 is a view of a modification of the ejecting-tube shownin Fig. 5.

Similar letters of reference in the various figures of the drawings willlocate corresponding parts;

The object of our invention is to combine and consolidate the usualpackage of insectpowder and the powder gun or bellows for applying thesame into a single apparatus, the entire package and bellows-box beingof such cheap form of construction that it can be sold for the sameprice as that obtained for the package of powder alone. This inventionwill obviate the necessity of charging and recharging the ordinaryapparatus, and provides the powder for instant use at all times.

In carrying out our invention we form, by stamping or cutting with dies,from ordinary 'pasteboard of suitable thickness, a blank to be used asthe body or base upon which to form the bellows-box and package. Thisblank has two creases, a 12, formed near its center, which divide theblank into three divisions, A forming the end, B the top, and U thebottom, of the box when finished. At the center of the division A is cuta circular opening, 0, into which is inserted a conical tube, whichforms the orifice through which the powder is ejected. Near the centerof the division B, forming the top, is formed another and larger cir.ular opening, 1', provided for the purposes, as will be hereinafterfully set forth. This pasteboard blankis bent into the form shown inFig. 4, and a spring, D, is inserted between the top B and bottom (J.This spring has two arms, d d, which are respectively attached to thetop and bottom of the blank, as shown, the ends passing through twoholes, of, and bent down on the exterior to hold them in place.

G is a conical tube, tapering to a point, as shown. It is formed fromtin or other cheap sheet metal, out to proper shape, and bent intothe'ta-pering tube form, the seam being soldered to prevent leakage. Ithas a foraminatcd base, 9, larger than its own base, which is alsoformed of sheet metal, and soldered to the base of tube G. This tube Gis inserted through the circular opening 0 in the blank, (from theinterior,) and forced until i the base 9 rests against the pasteboard,as shown in Fig. 4, and the pressure of the paper holds and retains itin that position. After the spring D and tube G are attached to thepasteboard blank the top and bottom are compressed to a properrectangular form, and a covering of muslin (which has previously beenwell sized, so as to hold powder) is pasted over the entire blank, thusforming the sides and rear end of a flexible material.

In covering the blank with muslin the opening i in its top is left open.The charge of powder is then inserted through the opening 11, and thetop and bottom of the package covered with paper (which closes theopening "6) and labels, or ornamented in any desired manner. The frontend is also covered with paper,

a portion of which is pasted upon the tube G,

to assist in retaining it in place. The tube G may have a base, It,extending below the perforated base, and provided with a screwthread, bymeans of which it may be screwed into the opening 0 from the front afterthe box is completed. I In this case the opening i in the top may beomitted and the package filled through opening 0 before the tube G isinserted. I

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

'1. An insect-powder package and bellows, formed of a single pasteboardblank, provided with suitable spring and ejecting tube or nozzle, thewhole covered with sized muslin, and arranged and operatingsubstantially as and for the purposes as herein shown and set forth.

2. The combination of the past'eboard blank JNO. N. GERARD.

HORACE J. JAQUITH.

Witnesses:

A. L. MUNSON, LEWIs WILKINSON.

